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First Edition published 1897

Second Edition with Addenda published 1901

New Impression with the Addenda and minor corrections published 1905

Reprinted January 1910

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"Was nützt, ist nur ein Teil des Bedeutenden; um einen Gegenstand ganz zu besitzen, zu beherrschen, musz man ihn um sein selbst willen studieren."-GOETHE.

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'And were there an artist of a right spirit; a man of wisdom, conscious of his high vocation, of whom we could know beforehand that he had not written without purpose and earnest meditation, that he knew what he had written, and had embodied in it, more or less, the creations of a deep and noble soul,—should we not draw near to him reverently, as disciples to a master; and what task could there be more profitable than to read him as we have described, to study him even to his minutest meanings? For, were not this to think as he had thought, to see with his gifted eyes, to make the very mood and feeling of his great and rich mind the mood also of our poor and little one?"-CARLYle.